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by xigency 11y ago
Being overheard isn't the only privacy concern. Most of these solutions offload the speech recognition and language parsing functions to corporate servers. I like texting with Siri but I'm not exactly keen on having Apple record e
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by xigency 11y ago
Sounds very similar Green Hills Software's TimeMachine for embedded applications.
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by xigency 11y ago
While this is changing, in game development the finished product ships on read-only media and without patches or online support, that is all the customer is going to get. Now there's a prevalence of day one patches but it's pretty
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by xigency 11y ago
In general, "the new thing" doesn't solve problems that patches fix. For a web platform especially, it sounds like expecting a new engine from a new coat of paint.
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by xigency 11y ago
Without any concrete evidence or cases, the general description of a problem in this article is not very convincing. Software maintenance itself is not an anti-pattern. Instead, what is described is a situation of product/project misma
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by xigency 11y ago
Not necessarily. We don't know what the index of refraction is on the prism on the album cover, nor even if the whole prism has a constant refraction index, or even if it's solid. But yes, the artist probably didn't depict it
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by xigency 11y ago
Why does it take any investment to make an app like this?
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by xigency 11y ago
Not to brag, but I have a pretty well put together resume in HTML: http://greg.team-duck.com/resume.html While almost no one accepts .html as a resumé format and it's difficult to convert to .pdf or .docx seamlessly, i
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by xigency 11y ago
Very good visualization and explanation. Pretty fantastic.
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by xigency 11y ago
Well, beyond what a human player would notice, to be able to be dealt any possible hand in solitaire, a random or pseudo-random number generator would need log 2 (52!) bits of state or > 226 bits, which is the point I think the commenter
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by xigency 11y ago
Engineering a Compiler 2nd edition, by Keith D. Cooper and Linda Torczon The dragon books are better used as references to those who are already familiar with all of the high-level concepts in compiler writing.
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by xigency 11y ago
I wrote a parser-generator in C and it took less than 42 days. Your mileage may vary. https://github.com/gregtour/parsergenerator Most of the C code is less than 1.5k LOC for the functional part, and this minimal, self
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by xigency 11y ago
Sure, depending on your computer. If you have a $500 graphics card plugged into a 600W power supply, connecting wires into ports that might short circuit could be seen as a 'bad idea'.
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by xigency 11y ago
Honestly, the most difficult, time consuming, and mundane aspect to this project would have to be the parser, which was apparently written in C by hand. So bravo. Getting to some of the final notes: > ... I'd choose a different desi
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by xigency 11y ago
For the problem to be NP-Complete, it would have to be both in NP (the one thing that can be agreed on) and NP-hard. For it to be NP-hard, every problem in NP would have to be reducible to it. If we already know that the Hamiltonian circuit
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by xigency 11y ago
Thanks, those are good points. I enjoyed the article.
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by xigency 11y ago
I liked most of the decisions you made and how you addressed the problem of hiring coders. One question, do you think, maybe not in your case but in some situations, that a process like this might be too drawn out or too selective? Recently
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by xigency 11y ago
Wow, and I expected a story about StarCraft II. /s
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by xigency 11y ago
Good point
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by xigency 11y ago
I think the idea of micro-payments instead of ads is that it covers costs. In that respect, and in general, if the site isn't turning a profit isn't that still non-commercial?
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by xigency 11y ago
Whoo, Chicago.
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by xigency 11y ago
Well, that's certainly the best linguistic analogy I've heard in a while.
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by xigency 11y ago
Reading the other comments, this is apparently how they are designed. Except, instead of objects and verbs it is a sequence of related instances.
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by xigency 11y ago
Inflatable actually implies a burning inner-tube or raft.
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by xigency 11y ago
Hm, this seems like a pretty risky way to connect this device to your PC - using a serial port. Edit: And THAT connection: http://meuk.spritesserver.nl/foto/foto/misc5/img_1999.jpg
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by xigency 11y ago
6.3 billion people included in the study? Why does that seem dishonest. Maybe I'm one out of seven?
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by xigency 11y ago
Hm, this seems to be more advice on how to use C++14 as if it were its own language, or as if it were Java, or as if it were Scheme. One problem I have with the advice to use the newest language features in C++ is that it sacrifices one of
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by xigency 11y ago
You must not have seen the movie Home Alone.
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by xigency 11y ago
It's interesting that the article doesn't address this, but the reason I think that relying only on cellphones without a landline is risky has to do with emergency situations, and for some reason I thought the CDC would tie into t
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by xigency 11y ago
Should kids learn to code? That's a great question. I also wonder if adults should learn to code, or my peers who would be young adults. I'm 24. I started programming when I was 10 years old by reading a 'For Dummies' bo

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